Rachel Dominy
@racheldom.bsky.social
Seizing that day. Also here @cairngormless.bsky.social
The best boy 😍
Life with a Labrador:
Bear brought me a salmon yesterday. It was a good size, maybe 3-4lbs.
And rotten. So very rotten the bit he'd eaten later reappeared.
Today was a pheasant leg - followed by a decomposing sheep's head.
A fucking sheep's head.
To be fair, he retrieved them all beautifully.
Bear brought me a salmon yesterday. It was a good size, maybe 3-4lbs.
And rotten. So very rotten the bit he'd eaten later reappeared.
Today was a pheasant leg - followed by a decomposing sheep's head.
A fucking sheep's head.
To be fair, he retrieved them all beautifully.
January 15, 2026 at 8:25 PM
The best boy 😍
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The snow was deep enough that the local farmer struggled to see where the track was when he cleared it for us - and, fine fellow that he is, he suggested putting up snow poles.
This surely unlocks another level of wilderness living 😁
This surely unlocks another level of wilderness living 😁
January 15, 2026 at 6:46 PM
The snow was deep enough that the local farmer struggled to see where the track was when he cleared it for us - and, fine fellow that he is, he suggested putting up snow poles.
This surely unlocks another level of wilderness living 😁
This surely unlocks another level of wilderness living 😁
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A group of young kestrels is startled by the presence of a butterfly. 🤣🤣🤣
January 9, 2026 at 5:36 PM
A group of young kestrels is startled by the presence of a butterfly. 🤣🤣🤣
Found myself thinking this is very cool. I clearly am not. At all cool.
Something interesting you might not have realized: a number of words in English are NOUNS when you stress the FIRST syllable, but VERBS when you stress the SECOND syllable.
"Your CONduct is better when you conDUCT yourself appropriately.”
🧵⬇️
"Your CONduct is better when you conDUCT yourself appropriately.”
🧵⬇️
January 7, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Found myself thinking this is very cool. I clearly am not. At all cool.
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Can you tell Bobbie the Labradoodle loves burrowing in the snow?
January 4, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Can you tell Bobbie the Labradoodle loves burrowing in the snow?
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Snow depths continue to build across our observation network, here are the latest stats ❄️❄️❄️
January 4, 2026 at 11:43 AM
Snow depths continue to build across our observation network, here are the latest stats ❄️❄️❄️
Properly snowed in. ⛷️
That's it, the faithful Suzuki Grand Vitara's has discovered its limits.
January 4, 2026 at 9:13 AM
Properly snowed in. ⛷️
The Wolf Moon and Jupiter just showing themselves through the wintry sky.
January 3, 2026 at 8:00 PM
The Wolf Moon and Jupiter just showing themselves through the wintry sky.
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Snow depths are building across our observation network, here are the latest we have had today ❄️❄️❄️
January 3, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Snow depths are building across our observation network, here are the latest we have had today ❄️❄️❄️
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Homemade sausage rolls.
Disproportionately rewarding.
Disproportionately rewarding.
December 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Homemade sausage rolls.
Disproportionately rewarding.
Disproportionately rewarding.
Glorious walk this morning …
December 26, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Glorious walk this morning …
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The Embassy staff of Germany, France and the United Kingdom sing Schedryk in the Kyiv underground.
Wonderful!
Wonderful!
December 24, 2025 at 10:29 PM
The Embassy staff of Germany, France and the United Kingdom sing Schedryk in the Kyiv underground.
Wonderful!
Wonderful!
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Bear the black Labrador fulfilling his mission in life: see something; pick it up; carry it home.
December 24, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Bear the black Labrador fulfilling his mission in life: see something; pick it up; carry it home.
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Last year's Christmas tree was the top of a fir that had been blown off in a storm.
This year's is a self-seeded (Scots?) pine whose roots were threatening a drain.
Waste not, want not. 😁
This year's is a self-seeded (Scots?) pine whose roots were threatening a drain.
Waste not, want not. 😁
December 14, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Last year's Christmas tree was the top of a fir that had been blown off in a storm.
This year's is a self-seeded (Scots?) pine whose roots were threatening a drain.
Waste not, want not. 😁
This year's is a self-seeded (Scots?) pine whose roots were threatening a drain.
Waste not, want not. 😁
November going out with a quiet splendour. A morning walk out of the back door and into the Cromdale Hills. Tomintoul distillery hunkered down in the valley.
November 30, 2025 at 11:46 AM
November going out with a quiet splendour. A morning walk out of the back door and into the Cromdale Hills. Tomintoul distillery hunkered down in the valley.
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Ever-changing light in the Cairngorms this morning.
November 30, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Ever-changing light in the Cairngorms this morning.
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This play. This passage. Simply the best ever – or at lesst most succinct – defence and justification for the very idea of Civilisation ever written.
This is why we’re here. Because of what this means. And because someone can put it into words like this.
open.substack.com/pub/benjamin...
This is why we’re here. Because of what this means. And because someone can put it into words like this.
open.substack.com/pub/benjamin...
We shed as we pick up.
[farewell to the master]
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:50 PM
This play. This passage. Simply the best ever – or at lesst most succinct – defence and justification for the very idea of Civilisation ever written.
This is why we’re here. Because of what this means. And because someone can put it into words like this.
open.substack.com/pub/benjamin...
This is why we’re here. Because of what this means. And because someone can put it into words like this.
open.substack.com/pub/benjamin...
Pesky pheasants in the garden. (Although Bobbie the labradoodle is actually focussed with adoration on the workshop where her favourite person is doing tractor maintenance…)
November 26, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Pesky pheasants in the garden. (Although Bobbie the labradoodle is actually focussed with adoration on the workshop where her favourite person is doing tractor maintenance…)
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Ever wondered what a Labrador and a Labradoodle look like play-fighting on a sheepskin rug?
Well, wonder no more. #dogsofBluesky
Well, wonder no more. #dogsofBluesky
November 22, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Ever wondered what a Labrador and a Labradoodle look like play-fighting on a sheepskin rug?
Well, wonder no more. #dogsofBluesky
Well, wonder no more. #dogsofBluesky
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The Cairngorm mountain range from the Old Military Road between Tomintoul and Grantown-on-Spey.
November 22, 2025 at 12:28 PM
The Cairngorm mountain range from the Old Military Road between Tomintoul and Grantown-on-Spey.
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Not a bad sunset.
November 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Not a bad sunset.
Waiting for our best person … 🥰
October 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Waiting for our best person … 🥰
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Uncovered a stone-lined drainage ditch, complete with a culvert that we think marks the location of the old track.
The guy who used to farm here, who is 77 and has lived in the glen his whole life, hasn't ever seen it, so it must be 100+ years old.
Geeky I know, but I love this kind of thing.
The guy who used to farm here, who is 77 and has lived in the glen his whole life, hasn't ever seen it, so it must be 100+ years old.
Geeky I know, but I love this kind of thing.
October 16, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Uncovered a stone-lined drainage ditch, complete with a culvert that we think marks the location of the old track.
The guy who used to farm here, who is 77 and has lived in the glen his whole life, hasn't ever seen it, so it must be 100+ years old.
Geeky I know, but I love this kind of thing.
The guy who used to farm here, who is 77 and has lived in the glen his whole life, hasn't ever seen it, so it must be 100+ years old.
Geeky I know, but I love this kind of thing.
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October 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Bear the black Labrador needs Tubigrip on his leg.
Bobbie made it clear she felt left out, so she's wearing one now too.
#dogsofBluesky
Bobbie made it clear she felt left out, so she's wearing one now too.
#dogsofBluesky
September 27, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Bear the black Labrador needs Tubigrip on his leg.
Bobbie made it clear she felt left out, so she's wearing one now too.
#dogsofBluesky
Bobbie made it clear she felt left out, so she's wearing one now too.
#dogsofBluesky